English: Southern cross.
Genus: ± 20 species.
Region: Southwest Australia.
Habitat: soils over granite or laterite.
Source: Essence Online; Australian Bush Flower
Remedies.
BotanyShrub, ± 50 cm high.
Flowers: white, symmetrical, cruciform in outline.
TaxonomyXanthosia rotundifolia has been placed in
Apiaceae, sometimes in
Araliaceae or
Mackinlayaceae.